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With just four days to continue his recovery, Stokley is not expected to play on Thursday against the Raiders. Limited in practice throughout the week, Stokley is officially listed as “questionable” on the team’s injury report.

In Stokley’s place, Matt Willis will be the third wide receiver. In actuality, tight end Jacob Tamme will receive most of the targets that would have been directed Stokley’s way. Willis is expected to see limited action.

On the defensive side of the ball, outside linebacker Wesley Woodyard (ankle) has been ruled out for Thursday’s game after not traveling with the team to Oakland.

In Woodyard’s place, we expect veteran linebacker D.J. Williams to get his first start of the season after being suspended for a majority of the year. Rotating with Williams will be Danny Trevathan, who performed well against the Bucs on Sunday.

The Broncos will miss both Stokley and Woodyard, but they have the depth at both positions to fill the respective voids. As John Fox says, “Next man up.”

http://ehalseymiles.com E. Halsey Miles

Woodyard didn’t make the trip and is officially out.

Pete Baron

How lucky are we that normally it’s Woodyard filling in for DJ, but this year, cause of the suspension and Woodyard playing at an All-Pro level that when he goes down, we have a Pro-Bowl caliber guy in DJ filling in for him. Not many teams (if any) can do that.